I recently had cause to reconsider something very philosophically basic -- the dichotomy of optimism and pessimism.  An acquaintance of mine was ruminating on the two terms on account of her being pigeonholed, unfairly, she thought, into the latter category ( Read more... )

My apartment complex has been shaken by a singular and terrible event.  There has been a shooting, and a man was lying dead in the parking lot nearly directly in front of my apartment building just a few days ago.  Had I returned home on schedule, and not been spending inordinate amounts of time in the gym unracking a weight from a weight bench in ( Read more... )

So this here is my update to the apartment situation that I mentioned previously.  I've been living alone in my one bedroom place for about 5 days or so now, and it's been pretty awesome, barring a few small issues that should be resolved in a few weeks or more quickly than that, depending on the ones to which I am referring.  Here are a few ( Read more... )

I really should get better at updating this thing.  I have had a lot of important stuff happen lately that I should say something about, if not because there are people who read my journal who would like to know then at least because I know from experience that getting it down on paper will help me crystallize my ideas and plans a bit more.  The ( Read more... )

Since there were so many, and it took me so long, I'm going to go ahead and post these separately so that everyone can see them.  The game is still open, if anybody else wants to play - you can even not post the meme to your journal, if you want.  Responses are in order of prompt.

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 So I was going to write an entry fairly recently about how I'd discovered once again how happy working out makes me (this time it was doing a 21 minute interval sequence on my rowing machine, which left my back sore for a few days ( Read more... )

 Anyone who knows me at all knows how often I go halfway on things, whether it's this journal or any other great plan.  In light of this, and the fact that I'm about to actually have my life settle into a definite rhythm for the first time (more on that later), I've decided to tell you livejournal folks about the stuff I want to be doing on a ( Read more... )

I had a thought that I wanted to take down, so I'm gonna do it.  I need to figure out what I want to use this journal for again, but I guess I can do that later ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about where I work. I've been here for about a month and a half now, so I think I understand it fairly well ( Read more... )

Thanks to some conversations with Roy and some intense brain activity through incipient napping, I've been thinking a lot about how a Stoic way of looking at the world would interface with having real, true friendships (of the sort I was talking about a while back, I'm thinking). I seemed, in my mind, to discover a mutual antagonism between the ( Read more... )